Give Gratitude!

I am not very regular with my journal! I have entries marking important events. Sadly all of them include me venting out my frustration and ingratitude and at this moment i feel so ashamed!! I never realized it but they even have a pattern. Like the entries are mostly in one particular month of a year! Do you think perhaps the month is jinxed??!! I guess that is why i have so much anger inside me!!Up until now i would surf the net solely to stop my self from lashing out at others!! Now however, my perspective has under gone a major transformation!! I have stopped taking every thing for granted and finding positive lesson in everything!! Considering i have much to be thankful about! Have amazing parents, great friends, have been given wonderful education, hell i am a doctor, have a chance of helping others which i think is a real blessing and i have been granted this amazing gift, this need to help my country!! How could i have been so blind for this long is beyond my comprehension!!

I would love to try this. I think this is a really good idea. Before, I didn't understand how a gratitude journal will help me in my life. But now I do understand, it's for helping us to focus on the positive things more than on the negative things and also to give gratitude to God.

I really appreciate you encouraging other people to do this. I've noticed this with myself a while ago. Whenever I wrote in my journal it was to vent about something negative that was happening to me, or about my relationship problems. I have a journal file on my computer (because I sometimes just type) that's over 100 pages single spaced... all about negative things in my life. I stopped writing so much because it got to the point that it was depressing and I associated it with negative feelings. I told myself that I would start writing more positive things but I just avoided writing altogether. I never really thought of creating a journal just for the positive things in life. I think I'm going to try that myself because I do believe in the power of positive thought. I think your little project could make many people's lives better if they try it out. As for me, I'm thankful for my health. I'm thankful for my mother being there for me so that I can have someone to fall back on. I'm thankful for all the struggling that she did to make ends meet on her own so that I could have a good life. I'm even thankful for her denying me things like toys when I was little, because it has made me less materialistic. I'm thankful for the college education that I was fortunate enough to experience. I'm thankful for my friends, who are there to cheer me up or talk to me no matter what. I could go on, but I won't because this post could get really long since I type fast lol.

Feeling that gratitude takes away all the negativity in a person. That's one of the tricks I use whenever I'm overly stressed or just angry at the situation. We can't help but get angry at many situations we encounter in our lives and we need a counter state for it, in this case, the feeling of gratitude.

First let me extend my gratitude to you for this wonderful insights. This is a warm encouragement one should not miss. I think I am grateful for my being, for my life, for my family, for every bad and good times I have while living my life. I am most grateful to my God, for every blessings all through out my life!

Gratitude for food on the table, grateful for that you have a house that keeps you from the whims of weather, for the comfort of hand, without thinking about the villa or penthouse pool that you'd like them or bolide that to make passing by to look back after you with envy. Gratitude to the people you love. Face it, simply, that there is at least a few people in the world who love and who truly care about you. Recognized yours that keep you the freedom to go where you want, express your views unhindered, to read any book you want. If you have a boyfriend, lover or friend, think with gratitude the joy that you bring it alive. Be grateful for memories of life pleasant and do not try to look on the bad that you were just destined to learn to be grateful. Be grateful for whatever makes you even just smiling during the day, be grateful when you come in contact with decent people, intelligent, warm and well intentioned. These are just some things we could be grateful for life. Are only suggestions. But certainly there are many others. And it would be better to find them, because gratitude is a way to live and enjoy the present.